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PATENTED JAN. 14, 1908.

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No. 876,736. PATENT-ED JAN. 14, 1908. P. s. SEE. LQGOMOTIVE TENDERLOADBR.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LOGOMO'IIVE-TENDER LOADER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 14, 1908.

Application filed October 10, 1907- Serial No. 396.748-

To all whom it may concern: T?

Be it known that I, FILER S. SEE, a citizen of the United States,residing at Gem, in the county of Thomas, and State of Kansas, haveinvented new and useful Improvements in Locomotive-Tender Loaders, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention relates to locomotive tender, passenger cars, mail,baggage, express and freight car loaders, and one of the principalobjects of the same is to provide parallel elevated tracks, or tracks ona level with the floor of cars, one upon each side of the main track atcoaling and watering stations, also at other stations for taking on andoff passengers, baggage, express, mail, freight and ballast, and to runa series of loading cars on the parallel tracks, means being provided onthe locomotive tender for moving a track section upon which is supportedone of the loading cars transversely to a point over the tender todischarge the load from the loading cars and for moving them outwardwhen unloaded into alinement with the parallel tracks, also similardevices on other cars for moving in and out cars for transfer ofpassengers, baggage, express, mail, freight and ballast.

Another object of the invention is to provide reliable and efficientmeans for loading locomotive tenders with coal and water without loss oftime; also to load and unload cars for all purposes described above.

These and other objects may be attained by means of the constructionillustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a sideelevation of an elevated track for supporting the loading cars andshowing partial outline of the locomotive and tender on a main track atthe side of the elevated track. Fig. 2 is a diagrammatic plan viewillustrating the elevated tracks upon opposite sides of the main track,a locomotive and tender being shown on the main track and loading carsbeing shown on the elevated tracks. Fig. 3 is a detail plan viewillustrating the manner in which the auxiliary tracks are movedtransversely over the tender and outward in line with the elevatedtracks, or on a level with floor of cars. Fig. 4 is a side elevation ofa tender and the manner of mounting the auxiliary tracks thereon and themeans for moving said tracks transversely. Fig. 5 is a transversevertical section taken through one of the loading cars positions indotted lines of the loading car.

and through the tender and showing various Referring to the drawings fora more particular description of my invention, the numeral 1 designatesthe trestle work upon opposite sides of the main track 2, said trestlework having supported thereon a narrow gage track 3. Supported upon thenarrow gage track are small loading cars 4 designed to carry either coalor water for loading the locomotive tender. These loading cars may beused as ballast cars by placing them on a level with the bottom of carsand dumping outside of main track.

The locomotive 5 is provided with a tender 6 and said tender has aseries of transverse guides 7. Mounted to slide between the guides 7 arerack bars 8 and supported upon said rack bars are auxiliary mile 9, saidrails having downwardly inclined ends 10 adapted to contact with thenarrow gage track 3; Formed on the rack bars 8 underneath the same is aseries of teeth or cogs 11 which engage pinions 12 mounted upon a shaft13 journaled at one side of the tender 6. On the shaft 13 is a pair ofspaced bevel gears 14 mounted to slide upon said shaft 13. A lever 15pivoted at 16 engages a groove 17 in a hub 18, upon which the bevelgears 14 are mounted. A connecting rod 19 is attached at one end to thelever 15 and the opposite end of said connecting rod is pivotallyattached to an operating lever 20, pivoted at 21 to the side of thetender 6. A curved rack 22 serves to hold the lever 20 in adjustedosition.

A vertica shaft 23 journaled in brackets 24 secured to the tender 6carries at its upper end a bevel gear 25 and the bevel gears 14 may beshifted by the lever 20 so that one of said bevel gears will mesh withthe bevel gear 25 to move the rack bars 8 and the supported auxiliarytracks 10 laterally to a position over the tender for discharging theload from the loading cars 4 and for moving the unloaded cars outward inline with the track 3. The shaft 23 carries a bevel gear 26 on its lowerend which meshes with a similar gear 27 on the end of the transverseshaft 28 journaled in hangers 29 supported under the tender. Asprocketwheel 30 on the shaft 28 and a sprocket wheel 31 on the axle 32 areprovided with a drive chain 33, by means of which the shaft 28 and theshaft 23 are rotated. The loading cars 4 may each have a hopper likebottom 34 provided with a hinged fioor 35 adapted to dump the load bywithdrawing the bolts 36.

From the foregoing it will be obvious that by means of my invention thetenders of locomotives can be quickly loaded with coal and water andthat the loading cars can be quickly moved to a position todischarge theload and back again to the elevated tracks for reloading.

Many changes may be made in the details of construction of my tenderloader without departing from the spirit or scope of my invention asdefined in the appended claims.

Having thus fully described the invention what is claimed as new is:

1. In a locomotive tender loader, elevated tracks, one upon each side ofthe main track, loading cars mounted on said tracks, alocomotive tenderprovided with an auxiliary track, and means for moving said auxiliarytrack outward in. line with the elevated tracks and inward over thetender.

2. In a device of the character described, an elevated track at the sideof a main track, loading cars mounted on said elevated track, alocomotive tender, guide ways on loading cars on said elevated tracks,and a rovided with means for cm the elevated tracks locomotive tendermoving said cars to a position to discharge their leads into the tenderand return said cars inline with the elevatedtracks.

4 In a device of the character described, the combination of an elevatedtrack at the sidev of a main track, cars. supported upon said track, alocomotive tender provided with an auxiliary track, and means for movingsaid track transversely of the tender to carry the loading cars topoints of discharge and return.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

FILER S. SEE.

Witnesses:

A. W. KOONTZ, E. N. SEE.

